The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-22
uloaned From all Parts Of tho state

Extensive chain works will be erected at
Sharon.
-Laucaeter ccuntys tax rate has been fixed at
2is mills
Ashland, schuyikiil county, had siO,OCa nre
Saturday.
-DOylestown, Bcrks county. has a population
of three thousand.
-Brandonvie, Schuylkill county, promises to
be new coal town.
"A silk min at Harrisburg gives employment
to four hundred hands.
"A strike Of the employees vt the Ducannon
furnaces is IN progress,
Wilson, thu nllrdercr who was hanged Mt
Norristown II wuck ago, was insane
An old mali haincd Rhoads died recently In
Bcrks county leaving fortune of $4,000 but no
heirs
"A number of coal oil tanks and several rail-
road buildings at Rcnevo were destroyed by fire
recently
Mrs. Lultens, of Shamokin, was found dead
in passenger car ut Reading recently. Death
resulted from heart disease.
a nest Of six boilers. at engine house, No. 90.
on the ID. & H. c. Co. H. H., near Faryicw, cx-
ploded Friday, Tie engineer and fireman were
killed.
Justice Martin, who conducted such pRying
business in committing yagrants to the Culnber-
land county Jail, was found guilty of sending u
two yrar old child to Jail.
DIR. C. T. Moore. prominent West Spring
field physician, died frCm the effects Of cocaine
poisoning recently He was a perfect wreck
physically sNd mentally
-AlSia Rohrbach employed At james Findlay's
ore mines, Berks collhty. was blown sky-hlgh re.
Gently in attempting to thaw out gas pipe which
contained frozen dynamite.
-EOston breaker, No. G, of the u. & II. G.. Co.
near Plymouth Junction, was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, a5O,O)O; nye hundred men and
boys are thrown out of employment.
"A bloody battle was fought for the possession
of Il mine near .BayEilton, Saturday, in which
several of the participants were severely beaten.
Tie fight will be carried to The Courts.
Five masked l,hn were discovered robbng a
! freight car at Pittsburg. Saturday night. They
cscni}ed after fatally wounding William Carley
one OF the parties who detectan them.
The Montgomery County Commissioners
have agreed with the Chester county authorities
to free the bridge over the schuylkill between
PhoeniXylle and Mont Clare on the first day OF
| May next
i evils Paul shot aud seriously wounded Mrs
Strngcr, at Rocktown, IA sInali village two miles
/ NcSl Ol AsllHtNtl, monthly nlSn'. j ne SHOOTING
was the result of drunken brawl In tho house
of the latter
Miss Nahnie Baird, Of Huntingdon, suicided
Saturday ON account OF the unfortunate ending
of Il love AFFAIR Mamie should have remcm
bercd that "'tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved AT alln
The daily average Of prisonefs In Schuylkil
county prison for the hionth OF December wa,
eighty one and the average cost per prisoner
was l4la cents per day, The profit of the institu
tion Tor last year was Sl,4i62O aud the dali!
average of prisoners four more than during tn,
previous year,
"A union meeting of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Fircmen WAS held in the Academy Of mn
sic, ut Scranton, Sunday, Delegates were pres
ent from nedrly every lodge in the United States
Mayor Ripple delivered an address of wclcom
and Frank p. Sergeant, of Terre IIaute, Indiana
made an address setting forth the principles q
the order The motto Of the organization, II
said, was protection, charity, sobricty and in
dustIy. The brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men was organised in Port Jervis, y. Y, IN Dc
cemher 1879. At present there are $40 subord
nate lodges, with a membership of 1900.